Magic Mushroom Hour with Omega
Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega On North Carolina Public Radio
You are stepping beyond the Dial, buckle up, the trip starts now!
This isn’t background music.
This isn’t safe rotation.
This is Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Three hours of deep-cut Classic Rock and Progressive Rock — stretched out, remastered, and set free from the algorithm.
We step into epic, long-form prog. We let the blues breathe. We honor the weird. We celebrate the forgotten.
No radio edits.
No corporate fingerprints.
No playlists built by committee.
Just flow.
Omega guides the journey — sometimes mellow, sometimes heavy, sometimes beautifully strange — moving through extended prog explorations, blues-drenched grooves, Southern soul, cosmic rock, and the kind of tracks FM radio used to take chances on.
Every song is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. The quiet parts stay quiet. The loud parts hit hard. Headphones recommended. Car systems encouraged.
If you miss when albums were experiences…
If you like songs that stretch past seven minutes…
If you believe radio should still surprise you…
Welcome to Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Turn it up. Let it breathe. Take the trip.
Podcast Description
Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega On North Carolina Public Radio
You are stepping beyond the Dial, buckle up, the trip starts now!
This isn’t background music.
This isn’t safe rotation.
This is Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Three hours of deep-cut Classic Rock and Progressive Rock — stretched out, remastered, and set free from the algorithm.
We step into epic, long-form prog. We let the blues breathe. We honor the weird. We celebrate the forgotten.
No radio edits.
No corporate fingerprints.
No playlists built by committee.
Just flow.
Omega guides the journey — sometimes mellow, sometimes heavy, sometimes beautifully strange — moving through extended prog explorations, blues-drenched grooves, Southern soul, cosmic rock, and the kind of tracks FM radio used to take chances on.
Every song is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. The quiet parts stay quiet. The loud parts hit hard. Headphones recommended. Car systems encouraged.
If you miss when albums were experiences…
If you like songs that stretch past seven minutes…
If you believe radio should still surprise you…
Welcome to Magic Mushroom Hour w/ Omega.
Turn it up. Let it breathe. Take the trip.
Episodes

Nov 22, 2023
Nov 22, 2023
3hr 14 min
The long awaited Magic Mushroom Hour Episode that was weeks in planning and execution. Starting with the Doors, then one of many Kinks tunes sprinkled throughout the 3 hours. The first of several Steely Dan hits, then one of several Thin Lizzy tunes, an excellent song from Lee Michaels, the wonderful version of Isolation by Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck, a couple of Tull songs, one of several from Ozzy and Black Sabbath, Next, Adam Duritz, Elton, CSN&Y,, Moody Blues, Mark Farner, George Harrison, Simple Minds, the Who, Jackson Browne, the Dream is Over, Mott the Hoople, Van Morrison, long set from ELP, Sons of Texas, Lou Reed, the Byrd’s, and finishing with Crystal Ship. An excellent 3-hour set jam-packed with excellent musicians and writing. Enjoy and don’t touch that dial.
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Oct 28, 2023
Oct 28, 2023
4hr 22 min
Tonight’s Show is a little less progressive as I have been wanting to spend time with those great tunes a lot of us grew up listening to on AM radio before long play. Happy Music from the past 3 hours that I thought you would enjoy. No setlist tonight but here are the Guess Who, Young Rascals, Creedence, Hollies, First Addition, Zombies, Jay & the Americans, Marmalade, Human Beinz, Grassroots, Buckinghams, Young Bloods, Orange Room, Boyce & Hart, Brewer & Shipley, Rare Earth, Steppenwolf, Maria Muldaur, Gerry Rafferty, Iron Butterfly, Toto, and the last hour Firefall. Some really good music that I don’t often play, I hope you love it as much as I did and do.
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Oct 16, 2023
Oct 16, 2023
3hr 29 min
We are all over the board tonight with some great tunes from a wide variety of genres. Starting with Elliot Randall ( Bark the Cat ), Alvin Lee & Ten Years After ( Space & Time), Yes ( the Fish ), Allman Brothers just to hear Dickey Betts’ guitar melody ( Melissa ), Mark Campbell & Tom Petty Live ( Good to be King ). Mark Farner with Grand Funk ( Nothing is the Same ), Adam Duritz with the Counting Crows ( Holiday in Spain ), Some nice cuts from Warren Haynes & Mule ( Little Doggies, Thorazine Shuffle ), Sandy Coast Shipwreck, Staid ( It’s Been Awhile ), Sweet song from Janis, Ian Anderson & Tull ( God, Beggar Man ), Sting ( Roxanne), Free ( Mr. Big ), Limp Bizkit ( Behind Blue Eyes), Beatles ( Bungalow Bill), Chili Peppers (Snow), Eric Burton & the Animals ( Don’t Bring me Down), Zappa ( Uncle Remus ), Steppenwolf ( Magic Carpet Ride), some oldies with John Fred (Judy in Disguise ), Jay & the Americans ( This Magic Moment), the Associating ( Along came Mary), REM ( The One I love), Mule again ( Just got Paid, Simple Man) Inxs ( Tear Us Apart ), REM( Losing my Religion), Finishing with some Moody Blues ( Up to You, I never thought I would live to 100). Great Night, Great Show, Wonderful Set. Come on in.
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Oct 4, 2023
Oct 4, 2023
2hr 28 min
Exceptional Show tonight of Classic Rock starting with Gary Moore & John Mayall, Next on to Atlanta Rhythm Section, a couple of Dave Meniketti tunes dispersed in the set, David Castro, John Mayall, the first of a couple of songs from Canned Heat, Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, several songs from Peter Green’s Fleetwood, an exception studio song from Stevie Windwood & Traffic, Blues Traveler with John Popper, Stone Temple Pilots, Wishbone Ash, one of my favorite King Crimson songs with Greg Lake, Derek & the Dominos with Clapton, Hookfoot, Ray LaMontagne, Cream, Blindside Blues, Steven Stills & Manassas, Uriah Heap, Elvin Bishops Jute Joint Jump, finishing off with Charlie Daniels Saddle Tramp, What a show, what an evening, What great Music from the Masters.
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Sep 24, 2023
Sep 24, 2023
2hr 1 min
Sorry, it took me 2 weeks to put this episode together as I have always been interested in how the young lads from Liverpool emerged from a club bar to write, perform, and record a book of music that changed the World. I wanted a progression of music from each of their albums to mark the changes in sound, writing, and studio experimentation. We most often listen to bits and pieces of their albums from this huge volume of material and don't really track the progress in their abilities. I hope you find this interesting as I loved putting it together. It's all good and the journey was quite remarkable especially if you follow the changes in culture that paralleled their short period of time together as a group. The Beatles.
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Sep 8, 2023
Sep 8, 2023
2hr 48 min
Classic Rock will set you Free, Long show tonight starting with Foreigner a band I don’t play much but will tonight, first Dirty White Boy, next Trapeze, Year of the Cat by Al Stewart, some sweet sounds from Steely Dan, Joseph, Stone Aged Man, Legs Diamond, Bowie, Rock & Roll Suicide, Orange Wedge, long cuts from Tull, Teacher & Thick as a Brick, Aerosmith, Spacen, some more Foreigner, Long Way Home, for the Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild, Lawdy Mama, next Guitar Guthrie Gowan, Doyle Bramhall, You Mama, on to Cream, Tales of Brave Ulysses, more Orange Wedge, Pugh’s Place, another Trapeze tune, Bob Seger, Come to Papa, REO, Golden Country, Aerosmith, Walkin the Dog, Sabatis, Simple Minds, Legs Diamond, Orange Bicycle(not Orange Wedge), Moxy, November Mitt Man, Rory Gallagher, Messin with the Kid, Nightman, Dirty Tricks, and closing with another Foreigner tune, Double Vision. Nice show with some musicians and songs not heard on air for 50 years. Outstanding music from some obscure bands of the 70’s all for your enjoyment, So, Enjoy! I tried to remaster all the old recordings and some were awesome, some very good, but they all sound great.
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Sep 1, 2023
Sep 1, 2023
2hr 26 min
Great Show tonight starting with Red Rubber Ball! Remember Red Rubber Ball? On to Yes, Owners of a Lonely Heart, on to Counting Crows, American Girls, Station Man with Fleetwood, a couple of nice tunes from George Harrison, Beware of Darkness, Isn’t it a Pity, next Arlo Guthrie, City of New Orleans, a studio set of Steve Winwood and Traffic, one of my favorites, Susan Tedeschi doing Bob Dylan’s Ain’t No Use, on to the Dead with Casey Jones, Tennessee Jed, Friend of the Devil, Blackberry Smoke playing some Petty, Dr. Hook, Sylvia’s Mother, Led Zeppelin’s Traveling Riverside Blues, I don’t play Aerosmith or Journey much but I put a set of Aerosmith’s Sweet Emotion, and Janie’s Got a Gun, ZZ Top, Tush, a nice Warren Haynes tune, On the Banks of the River, Wallflowers One Headlight, Harry Connick’s Reason to Believe, Harry Nilsson with Coconut, the Electric Prunes, Had too much to Drink Last Night, Private Eyes with Hall and Oats, Crowed House with the Dream is Over, Chili Peppers, Tell Me Baby, Beck with I think I’m in Love, and finishing with Simple Man. Some Sweet Remastered Music to liven up your evening, Come on In.
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!

Aug 23, 2023
Aug 23, 2023
2hr 16 min
An excellent night of Great music with compositions from all kinds of Genres and Musicians for your and my pleasure. It has been my desire to start a show with Merman by Jimi Hendrix for a long time, well we did it. Followed by the first of several songs by an early electric Steve Miller, the Beatles, She’s Leaving Home, the first of several Doors and Jim Morrison songs, People are Strange, Canned Heat, On the Road Again, some Trex off Electric Warrior, more Steve Miller, Mercury, on to LA Woman another Jim Morrison tune, a nice cut of Janis Joplin with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Greg Lake with ELP’s From the Beginning. Sorry, I can’t help but play Greg Lake singing! Steven Stills, So It Begins, Rory Gallagher and Jack Bruce making some fine music, Crazy Gnarls Barkley, Everybody Has Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, a nice John Lennon tune, on to some more Jimi singing Little Miss Strange, Mott the Hoople, All the Way, a long cut from Can’t Buy a Thrill, Joni Mitchell with a tune off Court and Spark, Greg Allman, She no Angel, Traveler in Time, Uriah Heap, a couple of cuts from the Smithereens, Little Green Bag from Strawberry Alarm Clock, Stone Temple Pilots off MTV., Blue Sky by the Allman Brothers, Mother Natures Son and Blackbird by your band the Beatles, Going to California with Robert Plant and Zeppelin, Long Time Gone, CSN, WHO, Going Mobile, Finishing with Indian Sunset, Elton. Enjoy!
Nice set, songs, and night! Beam on up and kick back!
Classic Rock and Progressive Rock! If you like long-form plays, this is your station, sometimes mellow, sometimes hard. 2 hours of nonstop commercial-free music with a flow you will enjoy and a little weirdness for fun to break the tunes. If you are into headphones, this is your venue, as all the music played is decompressed and remastered before it hits the airwaves. It's all about the music and nothing more; you will feel the flow! Music that hasn't seen the light of day on any radio station for many years, along with the weirdness of the "70s.... Join us today!







